Scott Dockendorf [EDIT: fixed spelling - never blog when you're tired!], who, by the way, is looking for a C# developer, is the second Telligent Systems guy to mention Tourney Logic products on their blog.

This time though, Scott's talking about the Tourney Bracket Control.

It looks like he didn't get his info from Alex Lowe, but from Jason Salas. It's interesting to see how the blogosphere works.

When I posted about my blog map a while ago, the only other local blogger on there was Eric Maino. Since then, two others have shown up (a former coworker and a former client), but now Eric is leaving. He took a job with Microsoft, and will be moving after he graduates. Congrats, Eric!

Then, after I saw that, I noticed that Drew Robbins, a former coworker, has also accepted a position with Microsoft, as a developer evangelist. I guess getting recommended by the person leaving the position helps. Again, congrats, Drew!

Mark Miller has a nice post about source code metrics and measuring complexity. It's a good read. I listened to the .NET Rocks show he was the guest on, and it was very good. A client saw him at VSLive! a few weeks ago, and based off of that, he ended up buying CodeRush based on that talk. I've seen it in action, and I think it's a very cool tool!

I have a free tool that measures complexity now, but not very well, and not configurably. This plug-in, for the DXCore (which comes with CodeRush) fixes that issue.

[link via Alex Lowe]

We got confirmation from Jason that Brian and I are going to be his sports talk show on Isla61-AM in Guam tomorrow night. We're both very excited about this! He's offered to have us to come on to talk about what we've been doing with Tourney Logic, as well as talk some sports. I never imagined I'd be on the air talking about this stuff!

Anyway, Jason has offered to record the show and send it to us. Once we get it, we'll get that posted up here so you can hear our on-air debut! If you want to listen live, they do have a feed. I'm not sure of the exact time we are going to be on, but it'll be between 8:00 and 9:00 tomorrow night.

Scott Mitchell was nice enough to leave me a comment that a sneak peak of his next article about the DAAB is up on 4GuysFromRolla. I wasn't sure if it was OK to highlight it, but then I re-read his first article and saw links to his new article, so I figured it was fine to link to it.

Anyway, it's a good read. I still haven't had a chance to mess around with the application blocks yet, so it was news to me that the DAAB supported multiple database providers, and used interfaces and factories to manage that. Very cool. I ended up modifying V2 of the DAAB to do just that, so that the Tourney Pool Manager could support both Access and SQL Server databases. With some of the other integrations, and knowing this, it may be time to integrate the new EntLib into the Tourney Pool Manager.

Scott's comment took me back to my high school days - he (inadvertently, I think) called me by my last name. I've always gone by Joel, and the only person to ever call me by my last name was my soccer coach. And it was usually when he was yelling at me across the field!

Richard Hale Shaw has a nice article arguing against hungarian notation. Personally, I don't use it unless a client requirement forces me to. It's basically for the same reasons he says not to - the tools are good enough now that it's not needed. I can hover over a variable, and see it's type. I don't have to rely on naming to tell me the type.

But, I'm not going to go as far as to say that I "question the wisdom of those who still insist on using it in face of this evidence." There's nothing quite like being subtle!

Here's an open source project to provide FxCop rules that are targetted to verify unit tests for general unit testing guidelines. Interesting idea.

A friend asked me if I knew of any stock quoting web services that I've had experience with. I've never used one, but figured I'd post, and see if there are any that you've used and liked (or not) in the past.

If you have, please leave a comment. It's greatly appreciated.

Mike (no blog...yet), a friend of me, has been working on something for almost a year now, and it's finally live. What is it? It's The Beaterator! He did it for Rockstar games, makers of the Grand Theft Auto game series. He's also done the past three games' websites. He did Tourney Logic, and he's done three other apps I've been involved with too. He's an awesome designer.

Anyway, his latest creation lets you create your own beats. It's a very cool tool, but be forewarned. You will waste lots of time messing with this thing. I would describe it myself, but I'll let his words do it:

The Beaterator, once considered an item of folklore originating from the dense White Pine forests of Western Michigan, is now a truthful reality.

Many of you have heard rumors, others have seen it in development. And most have never heard of it at all. What is "The Beaterator," you ask?
The Beaterator is the long-awaited follow-up to The Rhymerator, 2001's Rockstar Games + Median Group collaboration and the web's first rap lyric generator, providing countless wack MC's with the necessary tools to create verses that wouldn't get them booted from a rhyme cipher.
While one could say that The Beaterator is the instrumental counterpart to The Rhymerator, it would be a poor comparison. The Rhymerator is a crude flint tool; The Beaterator chops like a Ginsu.

The Beaterator far exceeds any existing online sequencer tool in power, capability, and sound banks. It is a real-time music sequencer that provides users with the tools to create complete beats, from scratch, for free.

- A series of massive loop and instrument sound banks have been created by musical auteurs: Matthew Dear, King Britt, Juan Atkins, and more.
- Flip a sample in the extensive effects console, with 5 ear-popping effects for dat ass.
- Got a sound you think should be up in da club? Upload it and drop it in the mix--another Beaterator first in the online sequencer arena.
- Build a beat like Legos with the Loop Crafter; 4 bars and a grip of 16th notes is the canvas upon which your snares never sounded so fly.
- Of the mind that it's not music unless it's got a melody? Tickle the keys, music snob, on the 2-octave keyboard.
- As if that's not enough, download the entire mix to mp3 and rock it in your iPod (or your iPod knock-off).

In case you didn't know, there's also a Rhymerator, so you can make your own beat, get your own lyrics, and put together your own song!

So, go out there, create your own beat, and let me know what you come up with. I'm hoping to have some time to put together a real beat, and get it up here at some point too.

Congrats, Mike. This is awesome!

John Robb says that if money matters to you, then don't blog in public (scroll down a little bit).

I don't agree. Blogging has no more consequences than any other actions you take may have. Just on a bigger scale. If you blog something bad about your employer, you may get fired. Because you did that, you may turn off future employers.

But the same can be said if you say something bad about your current employer to someone. Blogging just magnifies the effect of that.

It goes back to what everyone said after a few bloggers got fired for blogging. They didn't get fired for blogging, they got fired for not using common sense and saying something in a public forum that could get them in trouble. Blogging won't get you fired. It's just a new medium to get yourself fired. Probably faster than normal too.